Although it was already night, the shadowy figure still released an incredibly dense aura of darkness.
Cold and sinister!
The rising, enormous shadow slowly revealed its form.
A giant tiger, entirely black without a single blemish, its red eyes filled with a sinister aura, its body exceeding ten meters in length, its muscles bulging, likely weighing over five thousand pounds.
The oppressive force, like a mountain, made Ma Hongjun's expression turn serious as he felt this powerful aura.
"Guangyu, retreat!"
Ma Hongjun shouted, using Guangyu·Wuxie to perform a spatial jump and retreat.
The instant Ma Hongjun disappeared, a long black whip crashed down.
"Bang!"
A deafening roar echoed where Ma Hongjun had just stood, the buildings below collapsing into dust.
Bibi Dong had already arrived, joining Ma Hongjun.
Looking at the town again.
The giant tiger's body was now fully revealed.
The "king" character on its forehead was also black, but unlike the black of its fur, it was a somber, misty black.
That was evil energy.
Compared to other tigers, it had a pair of black wings on its back, truly making it even more powerful and terrifying.
Most peculiar was its tail; compared to ordinary tiger-type spirit beasts, its tail was much longer, stood upright, and was composed of countless joints, with a huge barb at the very tip, gleaming with a sinister light.
It was this long, large tail that had attacked Ma Hongjun just now.
"Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!"
Bibi Dong exclaimed in surprise.
"What, Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!"
Ma Hongjun was also startled, recalling information about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
So it was this guy!
No wonder Ma Hongjun felt a chill run down his spine, a sense of crisis rising within him.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger—this was a spirit beast steeped in legend.
Legend had it that an evil god descended upon a white tiger, causing it to mutate, transforming its original light attribute into a dark attribute, giving it black wings representing corruption, and that scorpion-tail-like evil god's hook.
Now it seemed this wasn't a legend, but reality.
Judging from the dense, almost tangible, evil aura emanating from it, Ma Hongjun had no doubt that it was possessed by an evil god.
Such a concentrated evil aura had never been seen in any other person or beast.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was extremely powerful and very peculiar.
Generally, soul beasts could be human martial souls, but the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was an exception; no one had ever possessed its martial soul.
It wasn't inherently of the dark attribute, but rather an extremely evil attribute left behind by an evil god, something no human body could withstand.
If judged by martial soul levels, it would definitely be on par with a six-winged angel.
This was the assessment of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger on the continent.
But in Ma Hongjun's opinion, this assessment was somewhat understated.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was no longer simply a soul beast; in this respect, it was a demonic beast comparable to a divine beast like the Light Unicorn. It
was even more difficult to deal with than a divine beast, because demonic beasts were always domineering, cold, extreme, and cruel.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possesses an extremely domineering nature. Its growth doesn't come from its own cultivation; cultivation is incredibly difficult for it. It can only rapidly increase its strength by devouring the soul power of other soul beasts or human soul masters.
This cruel cultivation method, while allowing it to grow incredibly fast, also isolates it. No one, human or soul beast, wants to see such a wicked beast grow stronger.
Therefore, no matter the environment, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger will immediately attract a swarm of other soul beasts to attack it, determined to destroy it completely before it becomes powerful.
In the original story, there was a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest, but it only had 60,000 years of cultivation.
That Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was eventually killed by Tang San. Even Tang San, at that time, found the 60,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger troublesome, considering he was already a level 93 Title Douluo.
His strength was comparable to Bibi Dong (level 98),
Qian Jun (level 96), and the Demon-Slaying Twin Brothers.
Therefore, the 60,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed strength equivalent to a level 97 human.
The creature before him had already cultivated for over 100,000 years.
A Light Unicorn that cultivates for around 100,000 years possesses strength comparable to a 700,000-year-old Soul Beast, a level 99 Title Douluo.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger certainly wouldn't be much weaker.
Comparable to a level 99 Title Douluo, Ma Hongjun felt, was absolutely no problem.
And this was without summoning the power of the Evil God.
With the Evil God's blessing, reaching demigod status, or even pseudo-godhood, was entirely possible.
There are four levels between level 99 and godhood:
Limit, Quasi-God, Demigod, and Pseudo-God!
Di Tian's peak strength was at the pseudo-god level, and this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could probably hold its own against him. A
100,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger couldn't possibly be unknown in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Moreover, given its domineering nature, before Di Tian and other ferocious beasts emerged from seclusion, no human or soul beast could subdue it. It would undoubtedly have slaughtered and devoured the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, then wreaked havoc on the continent.
The original 60,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger only dared to emerge after the deaths
of Da Ming and Er Ming. Could this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger be the same 60,000-year-old one?
Thinking about it this way, and connecting it to the events of recent years, Ma Hongjun felt it was very likely.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was highly intelligent; if it was behind all of this, quietly accumulating power,
using the Spider Soul Beast to instigate a civil war in the Star Dou Great Forest, resulting in the deaths of many soul beasts, then using
the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to increase its cultivation by devouring the soul power of soul beasts and soul masters.
The civil war killed so many soul beasts, whether spiders or other types, that they would all become food
for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's cultivation and advancement. By devouring such a massive number of soul beasts, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's strength could increase by leaps and bounds.
However, during the civil war in the Star Dou Great Forest, if it had intervened, along with the Evil King of the Evil God Cult, Da Ming and Er Ming would likely have been no match.
Therefore, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger must have been at a critical juncture at that time.
Ma Hongjun speculated that it was probably during
the 100,000-year Heavenly Tribulation.
After devouring most of the soul beasts, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger advanced to the 100,000-year level, allowing Da Ming and Er Ming to escape the calamity.
This allows us to imagine what happened next.
With the emergence of ferocious beasts like Di Tian, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had to remain dormant.
Later, it would secretly instigate a war between soul masters and soul beasts.
Only death could fuel their power.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger needed to devour the soul power of soul beasts and soul masters.
The Human-Faced Demon Spider also needed to devour soul beasts.
The Death Spider King needed death energy, and
the Soul-Devouring Spider King needed souls.
The Evil God Cult needed to corrupt more people and disrupt the order of the human world.
Therefore, as long as war breaks out, regardless of victory or defeat, the Evil God Cult will always benefit.
The Evil God Cult's strength will increase with the expansion, cruelty, and death of the war.
The battlefield is their source of sustenance.
If this continues, the Evil God Cult will conquer the Douluo Continent.
Ma Hongjun felt a chill run down his spine. He hadn't expected that in just two years, the Evil God Cult had grown so powerful without a sound.
The evil of the Evil God was terrifying.
Most frighteningly, the Evil God Cult was only pushing things along in secret. If Ma Hongjun hadn't discovered it, the world might have been destroyed, and neither humans nor spirit beasts would have known about the Evil God Cult's conspiracy.
In the short time Ma Hongjun was pondering this
, a crowd had gathered around the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. The main members of the Evil God Cult had appeared.
A hundred-thousand-year-old demon god tiger sat on its back a nine-ring titled Douluo, whose spirit rings were all black!
If it weren't for Eagle Eye, it wouldn't have been visible in the night.
His martial soul was also the Demon God Tiger. With the martial soul possessing him, his body swelled, and riding on the Demon God Tiger, it looked like two Demon God Tigers overlapping, a bizarre sight resembling mating.
This person should be Xie Wang, the Evil King of the Evil God Cult, who secretly manipulated Davis in the Star Luo Empire.
However, judging from his current appearance, he was to the lower left of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger at the center.
It seems the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger is the true leader of the Evil God Cult.
There were also three important figures standing to the right of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger:
Wei Sen with the Stone Tablet martial soul, and the brothers Xiang Chengsheng and Xiang Chengwang with the Black Tiger martial soul .
All three were seven-ring Soul Saints, with identical black soul rings.
Standing beside them were the Death Spider Emperor, the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, and the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor, respectively.
These three were the Evil Children with self-awareness!
There was also a group of about a dozen people, all dressed in black robes, shrouded in evil aura.
They were all Soul Emperors, Soul Saints, and Soul Douluos.
However, their martial souls were mottled, mainly consisting of four types: tombstone, black tiger, round shield, and bow and arrow.
Their spirit rings were normal, mostly standard configurations.
However, these people had vacant stares, like walking corpses.
They were undoubtedly evil slaves!
Ma Hongjun knew these evil slaves mainly came from the three major families of Soto City and the Tombstone Spirit Family.
Seeing the familiar faces—Wei Sen, Xiang Chengsheng, and Xiang Chengwang—Ma Hongjun couldn't help but sigh. Truly, evil lives on.
The three had clung to the coattails of the evil god, but had paid the price of their families' destruction.
Ma Hongjun wanted to eliminate these scoundrels as quickly as possible.
The three now had sinister, twisted eyes, their gazes fixed on Ma Hongjun with a predatory intensity.
Especially Xiang Chengsheng, who had been utterly humiliated by Ma Hongjun, now saw Ma Hongjun deliver himself to his doorstep, and his eyes were exceptionally bloodshot.
He saw the eight spirit rings on Ma Hongjun's body, several of which were dazzlingly red, making Xiang Chengsheng's face even more crazed and ferocious.
Jealousy had distorted his appearance.
He had abandoned everything to become the Evil Child, yet he still couldn't keep up with Ma Hongjun's cultivation pace.
Bibi Dong was already shocked, her face slightly pale.
She had always underestimated the existence of the Evil God Cult.
The power before her consisted of five hundred-thousand-year-old evil beasts, one of which was a near-god, four comparable to Super Douluo,
one Title Douluo, and a group of members ranging from Soul Emperor to Soul Douluo.
In terms of high-end combat power, they were almost comparable to the Spirit Hall.
Relying solely on her and Ma Hongjun would be difficult.
Ma Hongjun was also assessing this battle.
Currently, the Ice and Snow Emperors and Xiaobai were in seclusion, preparing for the Heavenly Tribulation; only the Titan Snow Demon King could be summoned.
Four against a group!
The risk was too great, and Ma Hongjun considered temporarily avoiding the confrontation!
However, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had no intention of giving Ma Hongjun a chance.
With a flap of its black wings, it attacked.
Its speed was incredible, like a black storm sweeping over.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed six attributes: evil, darkness, lightning, wind, time, and space.
Even avoiding its attack would be difficult; the speed of Light Feather·Innocent might not be enough to escape it.
"Then let's fight!"
Ma Hongjun hardened his heart.
He couldn't let fear of the evil god diminish his spirit.
One day he would have to face the evil god.
(End of Chapter)